ROADBLOCK! - Why local group backed out of Steffens archives talks
FAILURE TO agree on a price is the reason a Jamaican conglomerate pulled out of negotiations to purchase the archives of reggae historian Roger Steffens, businessman Wayne Chen tells The Gleaner. Chen, principal of the Super Plus supermarket chain...
Marley on show at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Bob Marley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Marley's handwritten lyrics to Turn Your Lights Down Low is one of the many artifacts at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio...
Greene returns with Midnight Blue
SAXOPHONIST TONY Greene toured and recorded for many years as a member of Lloyd Parkes and We The People Band, before packing it in during the late 1990s for a solo career that has so far yielded six albums. Greene's latest studio effort, Midnight Blue...
Sean Paul goes creole
SEAN PAUL is the headline act for the 12th annual Dominica World Creole Music Festival, scheduled for October 21 to November 2.Soca king Machel Montano will also perform at the three-day event which takes place at the Windsor Park Stadium in Rousseau...
The 'Souls' reunite
ROOTS-REGGAE group, the Wailing Souls, are planning to release a new album in early 2009 with three of its original members - Winston 'Pipe' Matthews, Lloyd 'Bread' McDonald and Garth Dennis.A tour is also planned for the United States during that period.
Something extra
Saturday's showers may have rained on some parades but they did not stop the wedding in the central parish or thecelebrations for the Beijing athletes in the eastern part of the island.
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